diff --git a/qsgen2 b/qsgen2
index c882ea2..cf2f229 100755
--- a/qsgen2
+++ b/qsgen2
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ function _blog_idx_for_index() {
                 URL:*) url=${component#URL: } ;;
             
 
-        local adate=( ${sdate} )
+        local adate=( $( echo ${sdate} ) )
         local bdate="${adate[1]} - ${adate[4]}/${adate[3]}/${adate[2]}"
         local blog_list_content=$(echo "${blog_list}" | perl -pe "s|BLOGURL|${url}|g")
         blog_list_content=$(echo "${blog_list_content}" | perl -pe "s|BLOGTITLE|${btitle}|g")